Tuesday, August 22, 2006
The one with the cartoon lady going on about how she knew she should’ve rolled over her 401k and and in all the paperwork and confusion or whatever she didn’t and felt bad or whatever? That’s totally me. I cannot access any of my prior company information to get at my accounts. You see, my former company over the years married all of it’s technology together and in the last year the password and user id you used at the cash register was the same for every other thing you accessed, including the online HR system thing. Convenient, yes? Sure it is, except for that on my last day it prompted me to change mine when I innocently was going to ring up a customer. You cannot use any of your last 6 passwords. It must be 8 digits, letters AND numbers.
I have no idea what I changed it to. None at all.
Then when you call on the phone to get 401k info you need the password or that original PIN you got the first month you were hired FIVE YEARS ago, and only used the one time to get the original password, that you would remember… but cannot use because all of the systems got married together. So now I had to get a new PIN, and that has to come in the mail because you cannot change your pin over the phone. Fucking fuck!
Then I have this limited time to sell my stock options. So I figure, the 401k thing is on hold, let’s do this… I never actually *bought* stock. It has been crap since day one, but there were some shares granted some time back, and a portion of those are vested, which I think means I own them. However, I own them at a set price, and when I try to “exercise” my options, I can’t because it would cause a loss. Huh? Speaking of loss, I’M lost… So I own them at a price higher than they are worth now, and just loose out because I can’t exercise them? WHAT DOES ALL THAT MEAN?
Changing jobs sucks. I have a headache.
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